The state's only professional wrestling company has certainly seen both sides of the enforced break from the ring.
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Completing their biggest show of the year before the coronavirus downtime, the Tasmanian Championship Wrestling crew have been busy uploading and promoting previous shows online to their TCW on Demand platform while the wrestlers stay in shape.
"We've been looking into it for a while but no one had followed through and went through with it so now with the downtime, we've actually had the ability to go back and find and get the footage and upload it onto the computers and then onto the servers," co-owner Beau Sayer said.
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"It had a good initial burst when it went up, I think the numbers have plateaued a bit now but that will be universal for everyone when it's hard to keep content flowing."
While Sayer described the seventh instalment of their annual Annihilation event as "as close to perfect as it could have gone", the company was forced to cancel the follow-up show, New Dawn - which was scheduled for April - having already sold all ringside tickets in under three days.
While the June show is yet to be cancelled, Sayer admitted it was highly unlikely as he pondered the effects the virus may have on his fan base.
With international companies such as World Wrestling Entertainment and All Elite Wrestling using their training bases for non-attended, televised and live-streamed shows, the smaller Tasmanian business is looking at its options before being able to return to training on June 15.
"That's the next piece that we are starting to talk about now is how we conduct our shows going forward.
"It will be nice to be able to get back into our training space and have a ring so we can film stuff, put stuff up on the internet that is fresh and new.
"As time goes by, we will have to tackle the shows with social distancing and limited numbers to see what works, what doesn't work and where we can go, so it's still evolving every day."
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